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EU Wants US Tech Giants To Pay Revenue Tax

PYMNTS

Germany, France, Italy and Spain’s finance ministers have announced plans to tax tech multinationals, such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc./ They would like the EU to develop a region-wide plan to implement their proposal, and plan to present it to all 28 EU finance ministers at a meeting next week. billion in revenue tax.

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What Goes Up …

Independent Banker

Coping just fine, community banks in energy-producing regions manage the oil-price plunge. Crude oil prices have dropped more than 50 percent from last July to this January, and they haven’t hovered this low since 2009. New energy regions adapt. By Howard Schneider. But North Dakota is a newcomer to the oil-producing world.

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Banking's Top 5 in Total Return to Shareholders: 2017 Edition

Jeff For Banks

The Bank, Old Second National Bank, lost a whopping $156 million in 2009 and 2010. Their non-performing loans (NPL)/total loans ratio peaked at 12.54% in 2010, and between 2009-12, the Bank charged off over 11% of its loan portfolio. Actually, the Bank had a one-time after tax litigation settlement (from a 2002-04 event) of $6.2

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Guest Post: Financial Markets & Economics Update by banker Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

The markets believe the chance of tax hikes, repeals of tax cuts, and gigantic initiatives are greatly diminished. Our regional economy, covered by the Philadelphia Federal Reserve’s Third District, is doing well into the fourth quarter. Stock prices are rising strongly, but bond prices have fallen from their highs.

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Fenergo Adds Enhanced Rules, Remediation to its CRS Compliance Solution

Fintech Labs Insights

Client Lifecycle Management solution provider Fenergo is boosting the capabilities of its Tax Compliance suite. The enhanced version of the company’s CRS Compliance Solution is geared toward improving tax regulation compliance through improvements to the Three Rs: Rules, Remediation, and Reporting.

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Guest Post: Year End Economic Commentary by Dorothy Jaworski

Jeff For Banks

We all have been reading for years how the United States was dramatically increasing energy production, especially from a method of extracting oil and natural gas in shale regions of the country known as hydraulic fracturing or “fracking.” Suddenly the US was the world leader in oil production. Consumer can and will rejoice and spend.

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

CB Insights

In 2009, a decade after PayPal started offering online payments, San Francisco-based startup Square brought payments innovation to the point-of-sale , allowing businesses with smaller transaction volumes to accept card payments with its card reader and mobile phone card reader. Product innovation.

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